Japan sales (Week 11): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki

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Miyamotoo on 21 March 2018

I expected Switch numbers to be around 70k but almost 55k is good in any case, great debut for Kirby and Splatoon 2 is unstoppable.

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gentii on 21 March 2018

Boom Shaka Laka Kirby.

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Switch HW Great

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Acevil on 21 March 2018

GribbleGrunger said:

think-man said:
PS4 sales looking not so good this week.

Yep, that average hasn't improved much at all. Clearly the only thing that boosts sales for the PS4 in Japan is a much anticipated game or a price drop. The spike and decline in sales following a big release is far starker in Japan than anywhere else, with the exception of MHW. It needs a price cut to sustain a better average in my opinion.

Gribble also note that Sony has been having supply chain issues. Not something that would boost it by insane large amount but obviously effecting the console.

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Acevil said:

Gribble also note that Sony has been having supply chain issues. Not something that would boost it by insane large amount but obviously effecting the console.

Maybe ... but it would likely still leave that average wanting.

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Pinkie_pie said:
Disappointed hardware sales. I thought switch would be at least 70k with Kirby and splatoon bundle and ps4 was just awful. Not sure if either had supply issue

Both have hw supply, ps4 being more the normal sku.

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XD84 said:
Great start for Kirby.

FW other Kirby games Media Create:

Kirby: Triple Deluxe: 214,208
Kirby: Planet Robobot: 144,846

Oh wow! It did amazing compared to what COMG were saying before its launch day.

Like i said pre orders dont mean nothing for kirby... Too bad the reviews got a 74 on meta amirite xD

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Pavolink on 21 March 2018

Great for Kirby.
Was the Splatoon bundle this week? Because the bump was pretty small.

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Jranation said:

XD84 said:
Great start for Kirby.

FW other Kirby games Media Create:

Kirby: Triple Deluxe: 214,208
Kirby: Planet Robobot: 144,846

Oh wow! It did amazing compared to what COMG were saying before its launch day.

The sales for the first week on COMG:

FW Triple Deluxe: 305

FW Planet Robobot: 285

FW Star Allies: 320

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Jranation on 21 March 2018

XD84 said:

Jranation said:

Oh wow! It did amazing compared to what COMG were saying before its launch day.

The sales for the first week on COMG:

FW Triple Deluxe: 305

FW Planet Robobot: 285

FW Star Allies: 320

Yeah I was talking about the Final day before it left the chart. But Once I saw this, it was only good news for Kirby.

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peachbuggy on 21 March 2018

Good sales for Kirby! This will bode well for LT sales. Looking like it will easily reach 1m in Japan alone, so maybe 3m WW possible. Without doing any sums it seems like Switch HW has gone up about 25% so not too shabby. Am guessing there were only about 5,000 Splatoon bundles made available, so it probably amounts to about half the bump. Now we have to see if it's a spike, bump, or if the baseline will actually rise for Switch.

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Miyamotoo on 21 March 2018

Pavolink said:
Great for Kirby.
Was the Splatoon bundle this week? Because the bump was pretty small.

It seems that Splatoon 2 bundle was supply constrained.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/5830420/

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